[EARTH] Wong Memorial Scholarship Awarded to Budding War Reporter

Wong Memorial Scholarship Awarded to Budding War Reporter
via Tomoyo Ito, Alliance News Network

[TORONTO] The Alliance News Network is pleased today to reveal Acarapi Nima as the first recipient of the Emily Wong Memorial Scholarship. Ms. Wong’s famous Chirpr feed showed the rest of the galaxy what was happening on earth via Quantum Entanglement Communicator. Wong’s coverage revealed mass conversion centers, the reaper’s systematic attacks on public institutions, and shed some insight into reaper energy weapons. Sadly, Ms. Wong perished after the Reapers were able to trace the QEC to her skyvan. In an act of defiance, Emily Wong sent herself, her van, and the QEC into a head on collision with a Reaper.

The Alliance News Network honors Ms. Wong’s dedication to journalism in death with the Emily Wong Memorial scholarship, awarding it to budding young journalists who have gone above and beyond the call to delivering the news. Their first recipient is Acarapi Nima, age 19.

Acarapi Nima is native to Cusco, Peru, where he is the elder brother to his two siblings, Adriana and Agata Nima. Unfortunately, their parents, Irene and Luiz Nima were killed during the first few days of the reaper invasion.

Nima, accompanied by a camera drone and sisters, documented the Peruvian war effort. The documentary, titled “Ángel Custodio”, covers events ranging from the day of the invasion to the eventual failure of the resistance and subsequent fall back into Bolivia.

After the war, Nima submitted over four hundred hours of footage to the Alliance News Network, seeking an avenue to publish his work. In light of his efforts, the ANN decided to award him with the scholarship.

“Emily Wong was a true hero to both humanity and her profession. To be considered for this award is an honor alone, but to actually win it... I can only hope to live up to the example set by Ms. Wong.”

Acarapi Nima will be studying Journalism at the recently reopened University of Florida, after which he plans to seek employment with the Alliance News Network.

Ms. Wong was an example for all of us, and while she will be missed it is good to know that her legacy will continue.

I wouldn't watch it now because I had my share of Reaper War during the actual war, but I'm sure this will be unvaluable for future generations.

Hummm.

I was in Peru towards the end.

Wonder if I'm in that film.

It is a very good thing that such a brave soul has not been forgotten. Which is something you can't say for a lot of other sacrifices made during the war.

Some culture on Earth have symbolic tombs of the unknown soldier to honor those who fought but whose name was lost.
Do other species have equivalents?

It's not exactly the same thing, so far as I understand what you're getting at, but back home (Attena, on Thessia) it's been tradition since preflight for every community to have a garden dedicated to its huntresses. Nothing lavish, just flowerbeds and lawn and a rock (that's an old kind of bench made from smoothing the top of a conveniently shaped stone, not just any rock; they're just called that), the exact design is up to the members of the village who maintain it. They're enclosed in a low wall, representing the guardianship of the huntresses, they being the 'wall' within which the garden (us) is peaceful and protected from harm.

They're not specifically for unknown huntresses - or even just the deceased - but they fill that kind of role in the general consciousness.

For krogan, it's the same as when we mourn the honorable dead. The shaman says a few words, burns a pyre and everyone stays silent for five or so minutes. Except without a body, we make a sand totem and the shaman etches a passage from a speech by Shiagur. I can't remember what the passage was, but take my word for it, it's pretty damn beautiful.


I've never heard of that method; new life coming from death. Strange and funny in a way, but you'd probably say the same about the krogan.

Pretty much every human in my group was glued to that feed when it all started happening. I'm glad that she got something to be remembered by.

I had no idea who she was. But now all of a sudden her reports are uploaded to all kinds of video portals, at least now I know why.
Having watch a few (not through everything yet but I admit I watched the end of it already) it's one of those examples where an average person became a significant example for a species in a crucial moment.
She's a good choice for a scholarship.

Good on him! It's not often that stories that start with "and then almost everything I knew and loved was vaporized by lances of molten metal" have a happy, a genuinely happy, ending. Best of luck to him and his family and, more personally, God yes something else not terrible to watch during The Commute.

And lo and behold the question of "does Taleeze actually live under a literal rock or are you just being metaphorical?" is finally answered.

Any word on the SSV Emily Wong yet?

I think the SSV Shepard will get priority.

From what I understand, Emily Wong was pretty brave for a reporter. Some of her stories were going against crime syndicates, which could have gotten her killed. She'd plant bugs in places that might have gotten her arrested if they were found (how she didn't I'll never know).

It takes being brave to be a reporter like her. Not the same kind of brave a soldier or law enforcement officer has, but still brave. And that deserves respect, how she lived deserves a huge amount of respect. So does ramming a Reaper with a sky van, but that just adds to it, y'know?

The nature of the scholarship is fitting. Especially giving it to Nima. It takes a huge level of bravery and determination to pick up a camera instead of a gun and film what's going on instead of shooting at the enemy. It's beyond the level of bravery required not to panic at it, which isn't easy when you haven't be trained to keep calm. He deserves more than a scholarship, he deserves an award.

Hell, I think basically everyone can agree that Emily Wong probably would have done the same thing as he did given the chance. She seemed like that kind of reporter.

While the question if Mr_Sandman is an egocentric troll on the extranet has been answered ages ago.
Not everyone follows human networks.

You know, that whole barb looses a fair bit of it's potency when a. "egocentric troll" is a dinner of ice cubes in tapwater in terms of overall blandness and b. it was the first publicly broadcasted report about the Reaper Armada's landfall on Earth itself and, as such, was chirped and rechirped by

Every.

Network.

In.

Existence.

Please don't choke on your one-line-between-everything stutter.
We know you know everything better:) And that's totally alright~

@Mr_Sandman : Quick, without looking it up, quote the name of the journalists who reported the initial assaults on Palaven, Thessia or Deekuna.

That's different though, because Wong's report was the first instance any of us outside of the Hegemony and Sol knew what was going on. By Palaven, Thessia, we knew what was going on.

So yeah, if you weren't Batarian and you weren't paying attention to Wong's feed than you were living under a rock because dude, Council world falling to the motherfucking Reapers.